Not so spring deer pattern

This is a post about pattern which I made for Deck the Halls series. The giveaway you can find HERE./ To jest post o moim wzorze będącym częścią serii Deck the Halls. Cuksy znajdziecie TUTAJ.

When Jennifer invited me to join Deck the Halls I immediately agreed. I was just working on a Christmas lap quilt pattern and I though that it would be wonderful event to share it with you (I'm sooo grateful that Jennifer invited me!).
My lap quilt contains 3 kinds of paper pieced snoflakes: tiny snoflake looking more like a star (quite easy to piece), medium size snowflake a bit more complicated and a large one which is maybe more complicated, but still easy to sew. So this is beginners friendly pattern.
At first I thought that background of this quilt will be scrappy, but any (!) of fabrics from my stash didn't match my favorite Christmas print from Winterkist collection. So I rip some seams and continued sewing with Winterkist only background. But I used almost all of it! I immediately ordered more, but so far I didn't receive my order (sometimes before Christmas there are slight delays on post office).
It wouldn't be good to share with you unfinished pattern, so I decided to make something else instead. I sketched deer (or raindeer?:) and my friend Joanna @ Shape Moth drawn this pattern in EQ7.

Before I present you 'Not so spring deer' pattern, look at medium star:

If you want to make pillow similar as mine, you'll need to prepare batting, fabric for back and for lining, ribbon, (optionally) zipper./ By uszyć poduszkę podobną do mojej trzeba przygotować jeszcze ocieplinę, tkaninę na tył i na podszewkę, tasiemkę, (opcjonalnie) zamek błyskawiczny.

'Not so spring deer' is for confident beginners, but if you are new to paper piecing please read first wonderful tutorial made by Faith @ Fresh Lemon Quilts, which shows step by step everything about paper piecing (you'll find this tutorial HERE) or fantastic tutorial made by our host Jennifer @ Ellison Lane Quilts (click HERE).
Additional thoughts: part I and J of this pattern are easy to piece, so if you are beginner and you prefer learning new techniques starting from easier tasks, please start with piecing part J first, then piece part I and after that try to join them together. Antlers are for confident beginners, but if you succeed with part I and J (G and H), you shouldn't have problems with piecing the antlers.

Thanks for sharing, this deer is so cute! I would like to design my own patters of paper pieced and I would like to ask you how do you create the pieces, is there any program I could use? or is simply cut the design into many pieces? any tip please?Thank you so much

Thank you!I use free software: Quilt Assistant - you should try it too! It is easy to learn (I did it by myself without reading anything about it, but I'm sure you'll find helpful tutorials if you need one).